{"id":89151,"date":"2021-02-17T11:43:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=89151"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:43:35","slug":"structural-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/structural-engineering\/89151\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Modular preview: Sharing materials and applications expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In this preview for the World of Modular event, we take a look at CEO of structural design firm <a href=\"http:\/\/iseengineers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Innovative Structural Engineering<\/a>, Shawn Lothrop\u2019s presentation<\/h2>\n<p>Shawn Lothrop is a licensed California structural engineer and chief executive officer of the full-service structural design firm, Innovative Structural Engineering. The company\u2019s corporate office is in Temecula, California, and it has regional offices in Roseville, California and Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Lothrop\u2019s involvement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/modular-offsite-build\/89028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modular construction<\/a> began in 2005. His first modular projects were single-family homes on raised floor foundations with Barvista Homes. He and his twin brother, Shane, both worked for other companies before founding Innovative Structural Engineering in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince then, we\u2019ve been involved with bigger residential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/guides-reviews\/modular-advantage-world\/85635\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modular projects<\/a>, as well as commercial projects and schools. Modular accounts for about 30% of the work we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Current and favourite projects<\/h3>\n<p>ISE has several modular projects that are currently under construction, including a five-story apartment building over a one-story parking garage, two three-story commercial buildings, and six steel modular buildings on the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center campus.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the UCLA Medical Center project, the Residential Treatment Program will consist of five modular buildings \u2014 a total of about 47,000 sq ft providing 80 beds for patients requiring full-time mental health care. The Recuperative Care Center is a two-story, 18,000 sq ft modular building. It will have 44 short-term care beds for patients recovering from acute illnesses or injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also have four or five schools under construction, as well as custom wood modular homes. We\u2019ve worked on quite a wide variety of modular projects!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lothrop\u2019s favourite project is the three-story Martin Luther King, Jr. Child and Family Well-being Center in Willowbrook, California. When complete, the 55,000 sq ft building will have a pediatric clinic on the first floor. This will replace the three trailers that currently provide outpatient services for at-risk pediatric and adolescent patients and their families.<\/p>\n<p>There will be an autism wellness centre on the second floor, and a family justice centre on the third floor.<\/p>\n<p>The modules for the building were manufactured by Silver Creek, and the third-floor modules are currently being set. \u201cIt\u2019s always good to be a part of projects that you know are going to be helping people in the community,\u201d Lothrop says. \u201cThis project was also interesting from an engineering perspective because we incorporated both steel moment frames and brace frames into the building.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>World of Modular presentation<\/h3>\n<p>Lothrop thinks it\u2019s important to continue to promote offsite methods of construction \u2014 both volumetric modular and other types of prefabrication. He\u2019s attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modular.org\/HtmlPage.aspx?name=2021_world_of_modular_welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World of Modular<\/a> event a number of times and finds the experience valuable. \u201cThe World of Modular conventions have exposed us to many different types of modular construction methods and types of construction,\u201d Lothrop says.<\/p>\n<p>At this year\u2019s event, Lothrop is going to be giving a presentation about the structural engineering side of modular projects. \u201cI\u2019ll be talking about the different applications for different materials \u2014 about what dictates when a heavier or lighter steel should be used, how many stories wood can be used for, when hot rolled steel or light gauge steel should be used,\u201d Lothrop says. \u201cFor example, hot rolled steel would be needed for taller buildings, as well as for buildings with larger windows and doors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Something Lothrop always stresses to owners and architects is that, even though the finished buildings may look the same, the process is different. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/guides-reviews\/modular-advantage-innovation\/85632\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Modular construction<\/a> requires a lot more upfront planning than conventional construction. \u201cI always recommend finding a really experienced modular manufacturer and making decisions early in the process. That\u2019s how you avoid hiccups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lothrop says it\u2019s best to get the modular manufacturer involved early in the process to help determine the ideal architectural and module configurations, the structural material, and all the details of construction \u201cto create a more constructable building\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen cases where an architect has developed a product with the owner, they\u2019ve gone through planning approval \u2014 and <em>then<\/em> they\u2019ve decided to go modular,\u201d Lothrop says. \u201cIt requires a lot of work to go back and make changes, and create new drawings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was first published in the Modular Building Institute\u2019s Modular Advantage magazine &#8211; January\/February 2021 Edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modular.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Modular Building Institute<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zena Ryder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Freelance writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenafreelancewriter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.zenafreelancewriter.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zena-freelance-writer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zena Ryder<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this preview for the World of Modular event, we take a look at CEO of structural design firm Innovative Structural Engineering, Shawn Lothrop\u2019s presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[594,856,636,916,627,696,50224],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[172484],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mmc-news","7":"tag-building-design","8":"tag-construction-technology","9":"tag-engineering","10":"tag-modern-methods-of-construction","11":"tag-modular-construction","12":"tag-offsite-construction","13":"tag-sh-modular-building-institute","14":"stakeholder_rel_tag-modular-building-institute"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World of Modular preview: Sharing materials and applications expertise<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this preview for the World of Modular event, we take a look at CEO of Innovative Structural Engineering, Shawn Lothrop\u2019s presentation\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/structural-engineering\/89151\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World of Modular preview: Sharing materials and applications expertise\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In this preview for the World of Modular event, we take a look at CEO of structural design firm Innovative Structural Engineering, Shawn Lothrop\u2019s presentation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/structural-engineering\/89151\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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